2025 Best General Materials Science Schools in California
3Colleges in California
181General Materials Science Degrees Awarded
General Materials Science is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #538 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for general materials science students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 181 degrees in general materials science to qualified students.
The general materials science program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Materials Science rankings. We derive our Best Overall General Materials Science School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Materials Science Schools in California list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for General Materials Science in California
The schools below may not offer all types of general materials science degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top California Schools in General Materials Science
University of California - Berkeley is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general materials science. Located in the medium-sized city of Berkeley, UC Berkeley is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #14 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UC Berkeley is a great university overall.
There were roughly 101 general materials science students who graduated with this degree at UC Berkeley in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in general materials science has to look into University of California - Santa Barbara. UCSB is a very large public university located in the midsize suburb of Santa Barbara. This university ranks 7th out of 161 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were roughly 31 general materials science students who graduated with this degree at UCSB in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in general materials science has to look into University of California - Los Angeles. UCLA is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Los Angeles. This university ranks 4th out of 161 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were approximately 8 general materials science students who graduated with this degree at UCLA in the most recent data year.
General Materials Science Related Rankings by Major
One of 2 majors within the Materials Sciences area of study, General Materials Science has other similar majors worth exploring.
Notes and References
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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The general materials science program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Materials Science rankings. We derive our Best Overall General Materials Science School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
